Please NOTE:
These steps mention http://www.ImageStation.com/index.html and use examples of my photos from ImageStation.com;
but the Basic Steps are valid for any photo stored on any internet server.

AND... My Operating System is Windows 98, Second Edition;
my Browser is NetScape version 4.78.
IF your Op System and/or Browser are different, then the steps you must
take might be slightly different!

That said; remember that the Code Lines shown as examples are what
you must end up with for your pictures to post properly on Pet Talk ~ just
remember that there are NOT to be ANY spaces or {*} in a line of code!
Those spaces and {*} you see were put there to prevent the Pet Talk software from
treating those lines as "valid" instruction codes. Without those extra spaces
or {*} you could not have seen the code ~ the BBS would have made a picture.

Open your ImageStation.com album in another browser window;
Click on the thumbnail to get the next larger photo;
RIGHT-Click on the larger photo;
* Observe the drop-down box and
* Select and Click "Copy Image Location";

Come back to your post on Pet Talk;
Click on the "IMG" button above the message block;
* a pop-up Image data box will appear
Point the arrow/cursor Inside the pop-up address block;
** RIGHT-click the mouse;
** a drop-down menue with a choice of "Paste" should appear;
Select and Right-click "PASTE";

Here's the steps to post a picture on Pet Talk using the Internet Explorer Browser...

** Open a Pet Talk post in one window; and your Photo Hosting web page in another window.
Display the Thumbnail or next size up photo that you want to post.

* Point you mouse ON TOP of the photo image
* RIGHT-click ON the photo
~~ A drop-down box will appear with the following active choices:
~~~ Save Picture as
~~~ Set as Wallpaper
~~~ Set as Desktop Item
~~~ Copy >> IGNORE THIS / DON'T USE IT!!
~~~ Add to Favorites
~~~ Properties >> This is what we use!!

* Point to Properties
* RIGHT-click on Properties
~~ Another drop-down box titled "Properties" will appear
* Find the line labeled "Address: (URL)"
~~~ It will Start with "ht tp:// and End with ".jpg"
*Put the cursor on the "H" in http
* HOLD DOWN the LEFT-mouse clicker and
* Scroll across the whole address - get it ALL highlighted (it might take up two lines).
* Release the left mouse button
~~ You should now have Highlighted the whole address
* POINT to the highlighted address
* RIGHT-click on the highlighted address
~~ Another drop-down will appear with "Copy" an active item
*POINT to and RIGHT-click on the word "Copy"
~~~ You have now memorized the photo location address :)

** Come back and Open up the Pet Talk window again
* Find the "IMG" Push Button
* LEFT-click the IMAGE button
~~ A data box should open
* POINT to the empty area inside the box
** RIGHT-click inside the box
~~ Another drop-dow appears with PASTE active
* Point to and RIGHT-click the Paste choice
~~~ You should see the photo address appear inside the box
~~~ It will start with "ht tp:// and end with ".jpg"
* Click on the OK inside the data box

~~ Now you should see the photo address inside the Pet Talk Message window.
It will have an [im g] in front of and an [/im g] behind the address.
The whole image line will look like this...

[IMG]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid41/p91d2decc2970
80b56514748191afcbcf/fcf7b950.jpg[/IM G]
(but that space in the [/IM G] WON'T be there.)

That photo was created by This line of Code:
[IMG][IMG]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid51/p3148217de
62b58a3ed681ad51f6dd757/fca3b43d.jpg[/IM G]

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Signature Photos...
ImageStation.com Thumbnail sized photos (the size displayed on your Index Pages) make great signature photos.
The steps to code a photo into you signature file (located on your profile page)
are exactly the same as outlined above.
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Open up your profile with "Edit Profile".

Find the "Signature Message Block" - looks sorta like a regular posting message fill-in box.
Work in that box JUST LIKE it was a message you were composing for a post.
You can type words above, in front of, behind, and below your photos.
You can BOLD or ItalicI words with the [b ]..[/b ] and [i ]..[/i ] codes.

Anyway - do it JUST LIKE a post =
Open ImageStation.com to see the Album Page where ALL your photos are stored as THUMBNAILS.

You WANT to use a THUMBNAIL sized photo - anything else will be too big.

Go to your ImageStation album and Find the Thumbnail Photo you want to use,
RIGHT-click on the Thumbnail; Click copy image location;
Go back to the Signature message entry box;
Type in [IM G]then Right-click, select PASTE;
RIGHT-click again and watch the photo location address appear;
immediately follow the address with the closing[/IM G]

If you want more than one thumbnail in the sig - read carefully!
Skip one or two spaces after the FIRST "closing [/IM G] thingy", then
ON THE SAME LINE make another [IM G]thingy;
go back to webshots and do all the Right-clicks on your next Thumbnail;
come back to the sig entry block and Right-click PASTE the second thumbnail right
after the second "opening[IM G] thingy";
finish that address with another [/IM G].

You can stack up 4 or 5 thumbnails ON THE SAME LINE IN the entry box -
the box will just scroll across so you never run out of room.
Just make certain that EVERY photo is enclosed in it OWN set of
[IM G]&[/IM G] code brackets.

This all takes a little trial and error experimenting.
Go to the "try your sig here" post, in [General], I think, and practice away.
Keep EDITING the same post in that topic so you don't fill the page with
bad attempts. Every time you edit your sig and try a new arrangement,
the sig will update in the post you're practicing on.
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ThumbNail example of the picture from above...http://www.imagestation.com/picture/....jpg.thumb.jpg

The code line for this Thummy looks like this...
[IMG]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid51/p3148217de62b58a3e
d681ad51f6dd757/fca3b43d.jpg.thumb.jpg[/IM G]

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If you want to display a photo in the body of a post, use the next size larger
photo - the one you'll get by clicking on the Thumbnail photo.
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Final Note:
If you are on a ImageStation page, you do NOT want to *copy* the location in your
browser window - which is showing the address of a ImageStation PAGE, not your photo.

Usually, a Right-click on the actual Photo will get you a drop-down box with
the choice of "Copy Image Location", which you select and click.
No drop-down box? Can't *copy* and *paste* ? Try this:

1) Highlight the address by holding down the mouse button and moving the
pointer across the address you want to copy; release button.
2) Depress & hold "CONTROL" key and the "C" keys at the same time; then release both.
3) Move to where you want to insert or paste the address.
4) Depress & hold "CONTROL" key and the "V" keys at the same time;
the address should pop up in the new location
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OK, Folks; Picture Posting 101 class is over for tonight!
If I've managed to totally confuse you ~ send me an
e-mail at: Phred@us5.com and I'll try to un-confuse you!

The MSN sites, Tripod, and some of the other picture storage web sites
~NOW Including WebShots and Photogra
will not allow photos stored on "their" sites to be viewed
and displayed on BBS sites such as Pet Talk. It's probably covered
somewhere in their "Terms & Conditions".

Once you open an account; open an album and upload [from your
hard drive] any photos you want to share via e-mails or by
posting on Pet Talk.
THEN you use your ImageStation album to store the pictures you want
to post on Pet Talk.

As we speak, ImageStation does not openly object to folks posting
photos stored on ImageStation. But everyone should understand
that ImageStation *might* change this policy in the future. >>Just like WebShots AND Photogra did!<< :mad:

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Here's some information about using some of the *automatic*
features found on the Pet Talk BBS...

The "IMAGE" Push Button is one of the features available
on Pet Talk that is just above the post entry Message box.
Just above the message box is a Feature Box:
*Labeled* "vB Code"

When you activate a push button; a data entry box pops up where
you can fill in the words you want made BOLD, in Italics, Underlined, or shown as an active Link, or as a Photo Image.

For the adventuresome ~ you can use the "Enhanced Mode of vB Code" to *STACK* up MULTIPLE Effects like this: It's Bold, Italic, Underlined and Red!

The CODE to do that was:
[ B][ I][ U][ COLOR=red]It's Bold, Italic, Underlined and Red![/COLOR][/U][/I][/B]

You're supposed to turn the features OFF in the reverse order that you turned thm ON in - first on = last off.

The IMG button gives you a data box to paste in the
photo address location. After you paste in the photo's address,
click on the OK box to return to the message entry box. And you'll
notice that the photo's address is AUTOMATICALLY wrapped
inside the special [IM G] and [/IM G] code brackets. :)

Like ~ it's just plain MAGIC!! :D

The bold and italic buttons likewise put the [b] and [/ b] or
the [i] and [/ i] brackets around whatever words you enter
into the data box.

Takes a bit of getting used to, but they're all pretty handy.

Gotta watch for two things, though...

* After you use the buttons, the durn cursor returns to the
TOP of the message box - if you don't arrow back down to where
you were in the message, you'll start erasing :mad: the top
of your message. (Been there, dun that :mad:!!)

* And the URL (link) and IMAGE (photo) buttons ALWAYS
put their output at the BOTTOM of your message at the
time you use them. You CAN highlight, cut, and paste the
results back up into the middle of your post if you want to.

ANOTHER ~ MAJOR Update to the "Posting Pictures on Pet Talk" tutorials...

We just did a ANOTHER Major Update of the "Posting Pictures on Pet Talk" tutorial (see above^^) ~(Latest Update Date = 2/15/2003)

The references and examples of WebShots (R.I.P); and now Photogra, too (R.I.P); were changed to http://www.imagestation.com;
and the feature button tutorial was corrected to reflect how the new Pet Talk software works.

Phred, how can I concentrate on pic. posting 101 with those 3 precious faces smiling at me! Cinder, you are SO regal!! And Smokey, you have a look on your face that makes me weak in the knees!!:D And Phred, if you're half as good looking as G-Mom, NO WORRIES!!;)

01-29-2002, 06:44 PM

slleipnir

Hm..thats a lot of stuffs..

01-29-2002, 09:32 PM

ellensy

Gee! Wow! ur really great at these things.
I have to crawl to be able to learn all that.
Phred, Thanks for all the tips.

01-30-2002, 12:17 AM

shais_mom

I don't know if its the overload of pettalkers to www.photogra.com or what but I can't reach the server.
And I can't see any pics that have been posted.
I understand how to do it, just have to find a place that will let me do it!

That's because, if you look at the original date it was posted, it was almost a year ago, and most of the photo-hosting sites have since changed their policy about letting users share their images from one site to the next. But the basic principles apply no matter where you have your pictures on the web.

02-15-2003, 01:12 AM

Phred

"POSTING PICTURES on Pet Talk; class 101" ~ UpDated Again...

We've done Another (the Third or Fourth - lost track...) UpDate of the *original* "POSTING PICTURES on Pet Talk; class 101" Tutorial ~

First: CROP the image to the smallest size you can - leaving only the part of the original image that you want to feature.

Next: Use your resolution and/or Size Reduction software to Reduce the largest (either Vertical or Horizontal) dimension to 60 pixels, and a maximum of 20,000 bytes in size.
Note: Change only the LARGER dimension to "60"; and let the software adjust the smaller dimension - to keep the picture's original HxW ratio intact and not distort the photo.